NGC Update Service: July 8, 2013

July 8, 2013

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New This Week

Guideline Summaries American Academy of Neurology Summary of evidence-based guideline update: evaluation and management of concussion in sports. Report of the Guideline Development Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. This updates a previously published guideline summary. American College of Radiology ACR Appropriateness Criteria® chronic ankle pain. This updates a previously published guideline summary. ACR Appropriateness Criteria® chronic wrist pain. This updates a previously published guideline summary. ACR Appropriateness Criteria® nontraumatic knee pain. This updates a previously published guideline summary. ACR Appropriateness Criteria® radiologic management of lower-extremity venous insufficiency. This updates a previously published guideline summary. ACR Appropriateness Criteria® soft-tissue masses. This updates a previously published guideline summary. American Society of Clinical Oncology Antimicrobial prophylaxis and outpatient management of fever and neutropenia in adults treated for malignancy: American Society of Clinical Oncology clinical practice guideline. Central venous catheter care for the patient with cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology clinical practice guideline. American Thyroid Association American Thyroid Association guidelines for management of patients with anaplastic thyroid cancer. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Colistimethate sodium and tobramycin dry powders for inhalation for treating pseudomonas lung infection in cystic fibrosis.

Announcements

New Features on NGC

• Visit the Advanced Search page to filter search results by U.S.-based developers.
• See which guideline summaries are included in guideline syntheses via the By Organization browse.

Revised Inclusion Criteria

NGC has completed the process of revising its Inclusion Criteria! Visit our updated Inclusion Criteria page to see the new criteria and send us your comments.

Conference News

• The Guidelines International Network North America (G-I-N NA) continues to sponsor a monthly webinar series on topics of interest to the North American guideline community. Information on upcoming webinars, as well as audio files and slides from past webinars, is available on the G-I-N Web site.

NGC's Sister Resources

• Find Innovations and QualityTools classified by disease or clinical category, patient population, setting of care, stage of care, and more in AHRQ's Health Care Innovations Exchange Web site.
• Look for Quality Measures in AHRQ's National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC).

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